Successful cadres are formed of those with that cold, bitter anger.
How do you think Lenin felt? His family killed, his friends dead or starved or running for their lives. Revolution beaten down again and again for over 30 years of his life? We see him at his grand success, but we never see him in 1908, hunted and downcast in Paris, overshadowed by Bogdanov.
To win, you need to know your efforts will likely lead to disaster and despair, and to people you love getting hurt for nothing but a month or two of riots followed by the harshest reaction. And then you need to do it anyway. We tilt at windmills, but we know it's built on an unstable foundation, that one day the windmill will collapse when we hit it.
Successful cadres are formed of those with that cold, bitter anger.
How do you think Lenin felt? His family killed, his friends dead or starved or running for their lives. Revolution beaten down again and again for over 30 years of his life? We see him at his grand success, but we never see him in 1908, hunted and downcast in Paris, overshadowed by Bogdanov.
To win, you need to know your efforts will likely lead to disaster and despair, and to people you love getting hurt for nothing but a month or two of riots followed by the harshest reaction. And then you need to do it anyway. We tilt at windmills, but we know it's built on an unstable foundation, that one day the windmill will collapse when we hit it.